Please help bears in India at International Animal Rescue’s sanctuaries

International Animal Rescue has an urgent appeal for help for their bears in India.  The COVID-19 crisis is critical there – as you may have seen from the news.

Essential bear supplies are disrupted

IAR is raising emergency funds to help their Indian sanctuaries to get through the next few months.  Some of their team has tested positive for COVID-19 and although extra manpower has been brought in, there is the possibility that sanctuaries may be short staffed.  Not only that, the transport system has been disrupted and that causes issues to medical and food supplies.

Bears have needs throughout the day

The bears must have a healthy, nutritious diet.  This includes honey (of course!), porridge and lots of fruit.

The staff arrive at about five in the morning to start preparing breakfast porridge, and the bears have their breakfast at 6am.  The staff make sure the bears are kept well fed during the day, as well as undertaking other bear necessities!

As the pandemic has spread, the bare caregivers themselves are becoming ill – and that means the bears may not get the food they need throughout the day. 

IAR needs donations for the bear sanctuaries

IAR is asking for donations, to help its bear sanctuaries at this desperate time and to make sure there are enough critical supplies to get them through the next few months.

#SupportTheSanctuary

Critically, IAR need donations for:

3 to 4 oxygen concentrators and about 10 oxygen cylinders as critical care for the staff as some have tested positive for COVID-19

Medicines and food supplies for the next few months so that the sanctuaries can get through the next few months

PPE supplies such as kits and masks to keep the staff safe

IAR say that supplies are becoming more difficult to get.  The bears need help and so do those who care for them.

Learning from the first wave of COVID-19

There is already a strict curfew and lockdown in Delhi.   IAR sanctuary staff are using animal ambulances to move food and medicines for the animals at the bear rescue centres.   Last year, the first COVID-19 wave blocked supply chains and sent food and medicine prices rocketing – and the sanctuaries want to avoid that happening again. 

Please donate if you can.  

Every bit helps the bears and the bear carers at this desperate time.

#SupportTheSanctuary

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Sharks are in danger.  

The problem for sharks

In the last 50 years, global shark and ray numbers have collapsed by 70% or more, due to overfishing.

73 million sharks are butchered every year.  They are sliced apart to rip their fins from their bodies. 

The fishers just want the fin – so they throw the sharks back into the water after they’ve cut that out.  This leaves them to bleed. 

The fins are sold on international markets.

Please sign the petition to the US Congress
urging it to ban the sale and buying of shark fins.

To help solve the problem

The US Congress is considering banning the selling or buying of shark fins within the country.  The bill has bipartisan support and that means it could truly become law, if we all speak out!

Canada has already banned the shark fin trade, and now it's time for the U.S. to take action, too. 

Tell Congress is must pass legislation to ban the buying and selling of shark fins to save sharks from extinction.

Please sign the petition here

You have probably seen the terrible situation in Israel.

Violence has erupted and rockets are bringing destruction and death.   People are abandoning their animals – dogs, cats, donkeys and horses.

Please help animals in Israel affected by the terrible fighting

But Network For Animals have teams out in Israel, who are working under fire to save the animals.  And Brian and Gloria from Network for Animals have been in touch to ask for help. 

One example is Bar, a horse who was found tied to a pole in a waste facility by Network for Animals’ partner, the Starting Over Sanctuary. 

Bar was skin and bones and starving.  He could barely stand, he was so weak.  He is dehydrated and suffering from malnutrition. He needs 24 hour care.   The team needs to help him to his feet twice daily – they use a crane to do this.

And more and more cases are coming into the sanctuary. 

Network for Animals are asking us all to help them.   They urgently need to get food and emergency medical equipment and medicine to help the animals caught in the crossfire.

If you can donate, please donate.  If we can share, please share.

The animals have nowhere else to go.   The Starting Over Sanctuary is their only hope. 

Please donate today!

There is also a zoo in Jerusalem.   Visit Jerusalem Biblical Zoo's Facebook page for updates and ways to help.